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Micky Dolenz played to a full house at Disney World on Friday — but he really would have preferred not to be. "Frankly, I wish it was someone else," Dolenz said after finishing a few songs during the Flower Power concert series, part of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival He got the gig after friend and bandmate Davy Jones died unexpectedly Feb. 29. Jones, a frequent Flower Power performer, was scheduled to appear at the festival this weekend. Dolenz, 67, said the death is still a "shocker" and that Jones was the closest thing he had ever had to a brother. The two had rocketed to fame in the 1960s in the TV show "The Monkees," a...

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Micky Dolenz played to a full house at Disney World on Friday — but he really would have preferred not to be."Frankly, I wish it was someone else," Dolenz said after finishing a few songs during the Flower Power concert series, part of the Epcot...

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TMZ is reporting that Jones, who churned out breezy pop hits such as “Last Train to Clarksville” and “I'm a Believer” with the TV-generated rock band the Monkees in the 1960s has died of a heart attack in Martin County, Florida. He wa

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Davy Jones, a onetime teen heartthrob as a member of the 1960s made-for-television pop band the Monkees, died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack near his home in Florida, according to his longtime publicist. He was 66....

Don Kirshner, the veteran music mogul who shepherded songs from a monstrously talented stable of young writers to the top of the pop charts in the 1960s, launched the career of the Monkees and then became a familiar face to millions of rock fans as...